豆腐

Chinese

		bean; sacrificial vessel	decay; rotten
simp. and trad. (豆腐)		豆	腐
anagram		腐豆

Noun

(deprecated template usage) 豆腐

1. tofu; bean curd (Classifier: 塊／块 m c; 嚿 c; 磚／砖 c)
2. any food with tofu-like physical quality
   • 魚豆腐／鱼豆腐 (yúdòufu)
   • 血豆腐 (xuèdòufu)
   • 杏仁豆腐 (xìngrén dòufu)

Synonyms

• (obsolete) 豆脯, 菽乳

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (豆腐):

• → Japanese: 豆(とう)腐(ふ) (tōfu)
• → Korean: 두부(豆腐) (dubu)
• → Vietnamese: đậu hủ (豆腐), đậu phụ (豆腐)

Others:

• → Amis: tawhu, tawho
• → Bouyei: duehfuh
• → Burmese: တိုဟူး (tuihu:)
• → Cebuano: taho
• → Classical Mongolian: ᠳᠡᠦᠹᠦ (deüfü)
  • Mongolian: ᠳ᠋ᠧᠦᠹᠦ᠋ (dēüfü), дүүпүү (düüpüü)
• → Daur: ᡩ᠋ᡝ᠋ᠣᡶ᠋ᡠ (deofu), dueb
• → Indonesian: tahu (via Min Nan), tofu (via Japanese)
• → Khmer: តៅហ៊ូ (tawhuu)
• → Lao: ເຕົາຮູ້ (tao hū)
• → Malay: tauhu
• → Russian: то́фу (tófu)
• → Saisiyat: tawho:
• → Nuosu: ꄔꃛ (dut fup)
• → Tagalog: taho
• → Thai: เต้าหู้ (dtâo-hûu)
• → Tibetan: ཏོའུ་ཧྥུ (to'u hphu)
• (Southern), tào phớ (“tofu pudding”) (Northern)
• → Zhuang: daeuhfouh

Further reading

• “Entry #3504”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

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Japanese

豆腐 (tōfu): seasoned cubes of tofu.

Kanji in this term
豆	腐
とう Grade: 3	ふ Grade: S
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 豆腐 (MC duwH bjuX, literally “bean + curdled”). Compare modern Mandarin reading dòufu.

Noun

豆(とう)腐(ふ) • (tōfu) 

1. tofu, bean curd
2. (computing) tofu, an empty rectangle displayed by some systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• 絹(きぬ)漉(ご)し豆(どう)腐(ふ) (kinugoshidōfu): silken tofu, soft tofu
• 木(も)綿(めん)豆(どう)腐(ふ) (momendōfu): cotton tofu, hard tofu
• 凍(し)み豆(どう)腐(ふ) (shimidōfu): dried tofu
• 杏仁(あんにん)豆(どう)腐(ふ) (annindōfu): annin tofu
• 焼(や)き豆(どう)腐(ふ) (yakidōfu): seared tofu
• 湯(ゆ)豆(どう)腐(ふ) (yudōfu): a cuisine of simmered tofu
• 豆(とう)腐(ふ)餻(よう) (tōfuyō): a fermented tofu of Okinawa
• 豆(とう)腐(ふ)化(ば)け (tōfubake): a form of corrupted text display, where code points that are not included in the current font are instead displayed with empty rectangles that resemble blocks of tofu

Related terms

Related terms

• 苦汁(にがり) (nigari): bittern, brine salt used as a coagulant in making tofu
• 豆乳(とうにゅう) (tōnyū): soy milk

Descendants

• → Czech: tofu
• → English: tofu
• → Finnish: tofu
• → French: tofu
• → Indonesian: tofu
• → Italian: tofu
• → Portuguese: tofu
• → Spanish: tofu

 

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Korean

Hanja in this term
豆	腐

Noun

豆腐 • (dubu) (hangeul 두부)

1. Hanja form^? of 두부 (“tofu”).

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Vietnamese

chữ Hán Nôm in this term
豆	腐

Noun

豆腐

1. chữ Hán form of đậu hủ (“tofu”).
2. chữ Hán form of đậu phụ (“tofu”).